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Don Natvig, Professor

Department of Biology
The University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
dnatvig@unm.edu

Ph.D. (Botany), University of California, Berkeley 1981

Research Interests: Fungal genetics. Evolutionary molecular biology

Curriculum Vitae and Bibliography

Education

Employment History

All publications

Natvig Laboratory Page

Recent Publications

Galagan, J., S.E. Calvo, K. Borkovich, E.U. Selker, N. Read, W. FitzHugh, L.-J. Ma, S. Smirnov, S. Purcell, B. Rehman, T. Elkins, R. Engels, S. Wang, C.B. Nielsen, J. Butler, D. Jaffe, M. Endrizzi, A. Roy, D. Qui, P. Ianakiev, D. Bell-Pedersen, E.L. Braun, D. Greenberg, G. Jedd, J. Kinsey, G.O. Kothe, E. Marcotte, W. Mewes, M.A. Nelson, U. Schulte, C.P. Selitrennikoff, C. Staben, M. Werner-Washburne, A. Zelter, K. Foley, J. Naylor, N. Stange-Thomann, R. Barrett, S. Gnerre, M. Kamal, M. Kamvysselis, D. Catcheside, R.L. Metzenberg, D.D. Perkins, S. Kroken, W. Li , J. A. Berglund, J. Dunlap, L. Glass, M.J. Orbach, M. Plamann, A. Radford, S. Seiler, R. Voelker, O. Yarden, S.A. Osmani, C.P.C. DeSouza, R.J. Pratt, L.A. Alex, R. Aramayo, D. Ebbole, M. Freitag, G. Mannhaupt, D.O. Natvig, I. Paulsen, M.S. Sachs, E.S. Lander, C. Nusbaum & B. Birren. 2003. The genome sequence of the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa. Nature 422:859 - 868.

Powell, A.J., D.J. Jacobson, L. Salter and D.O. Natvig. 2003. Variation among natural isolates of Neurospora on small spatial scales. Mycologia 95: 809-819.

Northup, D.E., S.M. Barns, L.E. Yu, C.A. Connolly, D.O. Natvig and C.N. Dahm. 2003. Diverse microbial communities inhabiting ferromanganese deposits in Lechuguilla and Spider caves. Environmental Microbiology 5:1071-1086.

Jacobson, D.J., A.J. Powell, J.R. Dettman, G.S. Saenz, M.M. Barton, M.D. Hiltz, W.H. Dvorachek, Jr., N.L. Glass, J.W. Taylor, and D.O. Natvig. 2004. Neurospora in temperate forests of western North America. Mycologia 96:66-74.

Braun, E.L., D.O. Natvig, M. Werner-Washburne, M.A. Nelson. Genomics in Neurospora crassa: from one-gene-one-enzyme to 10,000 genes. 2004. Applied Mycology and Biotechnology, Vol. 4, D.K. Arora and G.G. Khachatourians (editors). Pp 295-313.

Porras-Alfaro A., J. Herrera, D.O. Natvig and R.L. Sinsabaugh. 2007. Effect of long-term nitrogen fertilization on mycorrhizal fungi associated with a dominant grass in a semiarid grassland. Plant and Soil 296:65-75.

Powell, A.J., D.J. Jacobson and D.O. Natvig. 2007. Ancestral polymorphism and linkage disequilibrium at the het-6 region in pseudohomothallic Neurospora tetrasperma. Fungal Genetics and Biology 44:896-904.

Porras-Alfaro, A., J. Herrera, R.L. Sinsabaugh, K.J. Odenbach, T. Lowrey and D.O. Natvig.. 2008. A novel root fungal consortium associated with a dominant desert grass. Applied and Environmental Microbiology 74:2805-2813.

Khidir, H.H. D.M. Eudy, A. Porras-Alfaro, J. Herrera, D.O. Natvig and R.L. Sinsabaugh. 2010. A general suite of fungal endophytes dominate the roots of two dominant grasses in a semiarid grassland. Journal of Arid Environments 74:35-42.

Herrera, J., H.H. Khidir, D.M. Eudy, A. Porras-Alfaro, D.O. Natvig and R.L. Sinsabaugh. 2010. Shifting fungal endophyte communities colonize Bouteloua gracilis: effect of host tissue and geographical distribution. Mycologia 102:1012–1026.

Stajich, J., S.K. Wilke, D. Ahrén, C.H. Au, B.W. Birren, M. Borodovsky, C. Burns, B. Canbäck, L.A. Casselton, C.K. Cheng, J. Deng, F.S. Dietrich, D.C. Fargo, M.L. Farman, A.C. Gathman, J. Goldberg, R. Guigó, P.J. Hoegger, J.B. Hooker, A. Huggins, T.Y. James, T. Kamada, S. Kilaru, C. Kodira, U. Kües, D. Kupfer, H.S. Kwan, A. Lomsadze, W. Li, W.W. Lilly, L.-J. Ma, A.J. Mackey, G. Manning, F. Martin, H. Muraguchi, D.O. Natvig, H. Palmerini, M.A. Ramesh, C.J. Rehmeyer, B.A. Roe, N. Shenoy, M. Stanke, V. Ter-Hovhannisyan, A. Tunlid, R. Velagapudi, T.J. Vision, Q. Zeng, M.E. Zolan, P.J. Pukkila. 2010. Genome evolution in mushrooms: Insights from the genome and assembled chromosomes of Coprinopsis cinerea (Coprinus cinereus). Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 107:11889-11894.

Thomey, M.L., S.L. Collins, R. Vargas, J.E. Johnson, R.F. Brown, D.O. Natvig and M.T. Friggens. 2011. Effect of precipitation variability on net primary production and soil respiration in a Chihuahuan Desert grassland. Global Change Biology 17:1505-1515.

Porras-Alfaro, A., J. Herrera, D.O. Natvig, K. Lipinski and R.L. Sinsabaugh. 2011. Diversity and distribution of soil fungal communities in a semiarid grassland. Mycologia 103:10–21.

Ellison, C.E., J.E. Stajich, D.J. Jacobson, D.O. Natvig, A. Lapidus, B. Foster, A. Aerts, R. Riley, E.A. Lindquist, I.V. Grigoriev and J.W. Taylor. 2011. Massive changes in genome architecture accompany the transition to self-fertility in the filamentous fungus Neurospora tetrasperma. Genetics 189:55–69.

Berka, R.M., I.V. Grigoriev, R. Otillar, A. Salamov, J. Grimwood, I. Reid, N. Ishmael, T. John, C. Darmond, M.-C. Moisan, B. Henrissat, P.M. Coutinho, V. Lombard, D.O. Natvig, E. Lindquist, J. Schmutz, S. Lucas, P. Harris, J. Powlowski, A. Bellemare, D. Taylor, G. Butler, R.P. de Vries, I.E. Allijn, J. van den Brink, S. Ushinsky, R. Storms, A.J. Powell, I.T. Paulsen, L.D.H. Elbournei, S.E. Baker, J. Magnuson, S. LaBoissiere, A.J. Clutterbuck, D. Martinez, M. Wogulis, A. Lopez de Leon, M.W. Rey and A. Tsang. 2011. Comparative genomic analysis of the thermophilic biomass-degrading fungi Myceliophthora thermophila and Thielavia terrestris. Nature Biotechnology doi:10.1038/nbt.1976.

Vargas, R., S.L. Collins, M. Thomey, J. Johnson, R. Brown, D.O. Natvig and M. Friggens. In press. Precipitation variability and fire influence the temporal dynamics of soil CO2 efflux in an arid grassland. Global Change Biology.